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| Middle East |
| Yasser may have fired Tirawi... or not. |
| 2002-07-08 |
| Two senior Palestinian officials close to Arafat said he had signed a decree dismissing West Bank intelligence chief Tawfiq Tirawi, whom Israel accuses of masterminding terror attacks. But the news was immediately challenged by Amin al-Hindi, the intelligence chief for all the Palestinian territories, who vehemently denied it and denounced the information as a pack of lies. Hindi said in a statement that "This information is part of a propaganda campaign." Tirawi himself also slammed the report as "completely untrue". The reports said that Tirawi has been replaced by his assistant, Sami Abdul Majeed. Sami's now wishing they hadn't put that part in. Tewfiq is said to be the head of al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which makes him a dangerous man to fire; somebody could come to visit you and explode without warning. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |